| SWAZILAND: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and prevention |
 MANZINI, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral (ARV) programme.
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| GLOBAL: New two-hour TB test |
 JOHANNESBURG, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: More sterilizations of HIV-positive women uncovered |
 JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor.
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| SWAZILAND: HIV threat "exaggerated", says King's brother |
 MANZINI, 18 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Remarks disparaging programmes to reduce HIV infections, made by Swaziland's second top-ranking traditional leader, have sparked disbelief and anger among AIDS activists.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: No single formula for HIV risk |
 JOHANNESBURG, 16 August 2010 (PlusNews) - In southern Africa, prevention campaigns highlighting the HIV risks of having more than one partner at the same time have largely targeted heterosexuals and ignored the fact that men who have sex with men also have multiple partners.
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| SWAZILAND: ABC approach to be shelved |
 MBABANE, 16 August 2010 (PlusNews) - In a country with the highest HIV infection rate in the world and the lowest life expectancy, experts are still at a loss as to why Swazis have resisted all attempts to change the behaviours that put them at risk from the virus.
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| GLOBAL: Straight Talk with Dr Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides |
 JOHANNESBURG, 12 August 2010 (PlusNews) - There were cheers and some tears at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July when delegates heard the news that a clinical trial in South Africa, had found a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral drug, tenofovir, was 39 percent effective at reducing women's risk of contracting HIV during sex.
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| Analysis: HIV generics under threat from tighter patenting rules |
 VIENNA, 2 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Most of the estimated 5.2 million people worldwide on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are taking generic versions manufactured primarily in India, but tighter global intellectual property rights and trade rules could shut down "the pharmacy of the developing world".
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| GLOBAL: "Seek, test, treat and retain" to stem HIV among drug users |
 VIENNA, 28 July 2010 (PlusNews) - Activists and scientists at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna called on governments to stop criminalizing drug users and instead to provide them with addiction and HIV treatment.
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| GLOBAL: Survey reveals gaps in doctor-patient dialogue |
 JOHANNESBURG, 26 July 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, global survey has revealed the conversations healthcare providers aren’t having with their HIV-positive patients with potentially negative consequences for their treatment and health.
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